Your disengaged stare does something inside me 

It ignites me

My soul composed of the woes,

Things I had to go through

You’d never walk in my shoes

So I stare back.

I have so much more to say but you stand in my way 

I break free from the chains that you used to bind me, to blind me, to tether me to you in the name of love

Or pity.

The words that you use to aggrandize yourself and mask the abuse 

They no longer fill me.

Fear me.

 I’m taking a hiatus from those driving forces

Stepping away from the hurt that I felt through the course

of many years.

I’ve bled, I  wept and put a price in my womb

I feared no one would hear me 

But then It came from above and I rose from within

Planted seeds in my wounds 

And let “Her” light in